NGC 3509

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Galaxy
NGC 3509
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SDSS recording
SDSS recording
AladinLite
Constellation lion
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 11 h 04 m 23.5 s
declination + 04 ° 49 ′ 43 ″
Appearance
Morphological type SA (s) bc pec  
Brightness  (visual) 13.0 likes
Brightness  (B-band) 13.8 mag
Angular expansion 2.1 ′ × 1 ′
Position angle 40 °
Surface brightness 13.7 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Redshift 0.025698 ± 0.000023  
Radial velocity (7704 ± 7) km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(339 ± 24)  x  10 6  ly
(103.9 ± 7.3)  Mpc 
history
discovery William Herschel
Discovery date December 30, 1786
Catalog names
NGC  3509 • UGC  6134 • PGC  33446 • CGCG  038-109 • MCG  + 01-28-033 • IRAS  11018 + 0505 • 2MASX  J11042356 + 0449428 • Arp  335 • VV  75 • GC  2292 • H  III 598 • KCPG 265A • LDCE 0775 NED002

NGC 3509 = Arp 335 is a spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SA (s) bc in the constellation Leo on the ecliptic . It is an estimated 339 million light years from the Milky Way and about 215,000 light years in diameter . Halton Arp organized his catalog of unusual galaxies into groups according to purely morphological criteria. This galaxy belongs to the class Various (Arp catalog) .

The object was discovered on December 30, 1786 by the astronomer William Herschel with his 18.7- inch telescope.

Detailed imaging of areas of NGC 3509 using the Hubble Space Telescope

Web links

Commons : NGC 3509  - collection of images, videos, and audio files

literature

  • Jeff Kanipe and Dennis Webb: The Arp Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies - A Chronicle and Observer's Guide , Richmond 2006, ISBN 978-0-943396-76-7

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d e SEDS : NGC 3509
  3. Deep Sky Observer's Companion , accessed January 13, 2015
  4. Seligman